{"product_id":"discourses-of-empire-9780271022826","title":"Discourses of Empire","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe counter-epic is a literary style that developed in reaction to imperialist epic conventions as a means of scrutinizing the consequences of foreign conquest of dominated peoples. This work covers the representation of militant Christian imperialism in early modern Spanish literature.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“One must applaud the ambitious and far-reaching goals of the study. It is highly suggestive and engaging, with its own rather baroque discourse.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—E.H. Friedman \u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Focusing mainly on the \u003ci\u003ecomedia\u003c\/i\u003e, reviews counter-epic literary representations as discursive mediations questioning dominant ideologies, ways in which counter-epic texts contest imperialist practice and provide insights into the heterogeneity of early modern society.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Carmen Peraita \u003ci\u003eYear’s Work in Modern Language Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eContents\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface and Acknowledgments \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. Toward a Materialist Poetics of Counter-Epic Literature \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2. \"So That the Rulers Might Sleep Without Bad Dreams\": Imperial Ideology and Practices \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3. Liminal Identity and Polyphonic Ideology in \u003ci\u003eIndiano \u003c\/i\u003eDrama \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4. The Early Modern History Play as Counter-Epic Mode: Cervantes’s \u003ci\u003eLa destrucción de Numancia \u003c\/i\u003eand Lope de Vega’s \u003ci\u003eArauco domado \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5. The Novelistic History Play: Rojas Zorrilla’s \u003ci\u003eNumancia \u003c\/i\u003eDiptych and González de Bustos’s \u003ci\u003eLos españoles en Chile \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6. \"War and Lechery\": \u003ci\u003eLa gatomaquia \u003c\/i\u003eand the Burlesque Epic \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7. Conclusions \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWorks Cited \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pennsylvania State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400776884567,"sku":"9780271022826","price":45.01,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/discourses-of-empire-9780271022826","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}